buried treasure

[SimonCole]

I found a stone hand axe, pestle and mortar, hoarse tooth and brass army button.

[Snadger]

I found a stone hand axe, pestle and mortar, hoarse tooth and brass army button.

A museum may be interested in the axe and pestle and mortar if they have any age about them? I once found a bronze age axe head!

[SimonCole]

...I'll take the axe along to the local museum. The pestle and mortar was only Edwardian/Victorian because it was glazed. The problem I have is that I do not believe the soil in my back garden to be true to the area, it may have been imported.

There is also plenty of slag in my garden. I'll take some of that along.

[trousers]

hi simoncole, if you take them to the museum in aylesbury bucks the people there are very good, we have taken many finds to them and they were very helpful in the past.

[SimonCole]

Aylesbury sounds good... I'll try to make it in the summer

[smallblueplanet]

If you post a few shots of the stone hand-axe I'll see if the OH (who is an archaeologist/prehistorian by day!) can identify it for you.

[SimonCole]

I will... It's in my other house so I'll have the shots up on Feb 3rd. Thanks smallblueplanet

[dexterdoglancashire]

Not treasure exactly.... but I found a nice piece of slate whilst digging my lottie for the first time this afternoon. (See "ideas please" in the general section!). I also found quite a few seashells, goodness knows where they came from! DDL

[NEWTO THE PLOT]

today i dug up a small galvinised pale figger it will have a use somehow not rusty at all.

[smallblueplanet]

Hi Simon, forgot about this thread, have you got any pictures of the axe?

[Wolfie]

i too had the metal detecting bug for about five years ,when we lived in buckinghamshire,i found ring money,goldstaters fromthe celtic period roman coins ,knife handles etc and coins from the saxon tothe modern day its a fab hobby and one i will get back to in time ,there was a great mag you could buy at the time called the searcher

The Searcher mag is still printed monthly along with another called Treasure Hunter. Have to agree, it's a great hobby although search sites are difficult to get so I stick to beaches when we are on hols. It's amazing how much money and jewellery people lose on the beaches these days When I progress from the waiting list and actually get a lottie, I'll give it a quick search before digging (just to see what I turn up ) My dad dug up a small bronze cup thing on his lottie that looks like it's been turned on a lathe but has engravings all around it.

[SimonCole]

Hi Simon, forgot about this thread, have you got any pictures of the axe?

Completely forgot, so many apologies... will post on March 5th